The Funeral of Vera Kholodnaya

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains...

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrate...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions a...

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and obser...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.

Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. Th...

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United Sta...

Early Balkan footage.

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

Part 1 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Australian cinema from the very beginning, from the newsreels, ethnographic and actuality films, to...

A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goes to sleep at 10pm.

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by...